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Does it mean that Garricks are rarer than Tuppers? a sad thought: or that Siddonses are rarer than Shakespeares? which may be denied confidently. Does it mean anything? Perhaps not. It merely exhibits a confusion between the relative and the absolute. This warping jealousy if it exist really is due to a feeling that the actor becomes great in popularity at the expense of the author.
I wish Lady Ailesbury was as fortunate! The Pembrokes, Churchills, Le Texier, as you will have heard, and the Garricks have been with us. Perhaps, if alone, I might have come to you; but you are all too healthy and harmonious. I can neither walk nor sing; nor, indeed, am fit for anything but to amuse myself in a sedentary trifling way.
Thrale as they listened to Johnson; and she replied: 'You'll carry it all in your head; a long head is as good as shorthand. Miss Hannah More recalls a gay meeting at the Garricks', in Johnson's absence, when Boswell was bold enough to match his skill with no other than Garrick himself in an imitation of Johnson.
The family likeness of the Garricks was very striking; and Johnson thought that David's vivacity was not so peculiar to himself as was supposed.
Hannah More: see post, under date of June 30, 1784. In her visits to London she was commonly the guest of the Garricks. A few months before this conversation Garrick wrote a prologue and epilogue for her tragedy of Percy. He invested for her the money that she made by this play. H. More's Memoirs, i. 122, 140.
"It's remarkable," said Volodya Pavlov, "that all the Russian Garricks bear such queer names, on the style of Chrysantov, Thetisov, Mamontov and Epimhakov." "And besides that, the best known of them must needs either speak thickly, or lisp, or stammer," added the reporter.
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